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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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A novel inspired by the life of Dr. James Miranda Barry follows a penniless Irish girl who adopts the identity of a boy in order to enter medical school, and embracing the freedom of living life as a man, becomes one of the most well-respected physicians in nineteenth-century Cape Town.
Born in Cork, Ireland, Margaret Perry "died" and Jonathan Mirandus Perry began "his" journey to enter medical school and provide for family. Perry embraced the new-found...
2) Still life
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Wicomb's majestic new novel Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality as Wicomb tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only legacy is in South Africa where he is dubbed the "Father of South African Poetry." In her efforts to resurrect Pringle, the writer summons the specter of Mary Prince, the West Indian slave whose history Pringle had once published, along...
3) Warrior king
Author
Series
Courtney novels volume 21
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"South Africa, 1820. When Ann Waite discovers a shipwreck in Algoa Bay she is stunned to find survivors: a scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the distance alone, Ann is left to raise the young child, Harry, in place of the baby she tragically lost at sea. Disaster and hardship befall Ann and Harry, and desperation drives them into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked man once more. Ralph Courtney has recently escaped Robben...
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